Rail users across the UK will see a jump in the price of tickets from the start of next year, it was revealed today.

Millions of users will see a rise of up to 3.6 per cent on their current regulated rail fares from January as the government revealed the Retail Price Index measure of inflation, which is linked to the prices.

The increase is the highest jump since 2013 and unions have called for fares to be reduced. A Bath to Bristol season ticket currently costs commuters £1,580

Fewer than half of passengers are satisfied with the value for money of train tickets

Transport Salaried Staffs Association leader Manuel Cortes said: "Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he robbed his passengers. Today train companies, with the Government's blessing, hide behind the Retail Price Index as a method of legitimately fleecing more money from hard-pressed passengers at the start of each new year."

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Other fares, like super off-peak travel and advance tickets, will not be set in December.

Mick Whelan, general secretary of train drivers' union Aslef, said: "After years of austerity, when workers have not achieved pay increases for years at or around inflation, it is unfair that the industry they subsidise creates transport poverty and hurts the communities and industries that they should be supporting."